Hints and tips:
...As the traffic of Banja Luka thins into the valleys of the Dinaric Alps, the tarmac cuts through the Bosnian hills and forested mountains in what looks like the backdrop to a James Bond chase....
...Croatia’s Luka Modrić does. He runs up slowly, head raised, watching the keeper for the slightest indication — even a lifted heel — of which way he’ll move....
...AC Sparta Praha football player Lukáš Haraslín wore a camera for the Czech side’s friendly against FC Nuremberg....
...With age, a brilliant player learns to pick the best option from his toolkit....
...According to Lukas Golder of GFS Bern, Switzerland’s leading pollster, the initiative is unlikely to garner the support of more than 40 per cent of the electorate....
...But the book picks up pace in its flashbacks. Through them, we learn how “reputationally, Eve has been cursed with connections”....
...My pick, though, would be the Amarotto, which is made from a blend of bitter herbs and smoked almonds. If cowboys drank Amaretto, they’d probably drink this....
...However, it added that this had now begun to pick up again, a factor that should boost demand in the near-term. Analysts agreed that the outlook for the shipping industry was positive....
...Mr Perez is known for his policy of importing expensive foreign players, insisting his managers pick them regardless of how they fit into the team....
...Seeing as FIFA is privately held (our pick), Richard J....
...Dealmaking activity among mid-cap mining companies is starting to pick-up....
...If organised but weaker teams pick off tournament favourites, they will employ these defensive strategies in the knockout stages. If so, the goals could dry up....
...“We are not seeing anything put in place yet [to hedge the French election],” says Lukas Daalder, chief investment officer at Robeco Investment Solutions, the Dutch asset manager....
...A few months after signing German forward Lukas Podolski in 2012, Arsenal filmed him taking a sightseeing tour of the capital....
...And in any case, the insurance industry has not always been quick to pick up on new technology....
...This strategy has allowed companies to focus on the less-capital intensive business of operating properties for fees, leaving third parties to pick up other hefty costs....
...Here is our pick of eight designers from around the world who have graduated in the past five years and are already making their mark....
...SAP’s second-tier “global managing board” – from which SAP tends to pick board members – has also been overhauled....
...Director Lukas Moodysson, who marshalled kids to similarly good effect in Together, manages to balance rebellious verve with heartwarming innocence, keeping the cuteness in check....
...Stationed in Banja Luka, a garrison town in northern Bosnia, Kreslin was hapless before any request-cum-order to play....
...Vienna now owns controlling stakes in Prague, Budapest and Ljubljana, and pools data also with Bucharest, Sarajevo, Banja Luka (in Bosnia’s Serb-run enclave), Skopje and Belgrade....
...This is his life counter: he can pick up “lives”; when he loses one, he does not die; he merely has to go back to the previous “level”. He has to push golden buttons to “save” the level....
...UBS hopes to generate SFr4bn a quarter in FICC revenues when trading activity picks up – double its current “interim” target....
...Below I’ve copied out a fascinating recent paper from what I think is one of the UK’s best financial planners James Norton at Evolve that picks up on research into what’s called ‘money weighted returns’....
...“Working-class names were the first to go free, in the sense that people would just pick names that hadn’t previously been used.”...
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